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Reading Schedule: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Dear Friend, Our next title selected for this project is the first book in Marcel Proust’s infamous and much-acclaimed cycle, In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way. This is the first collaborative read we’re doing as part of the project (with another happening later this year for Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey). If you’d like to…
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Collecting Butterflies
Dear Friend, All things must pass. So sings George Harrison, in one of my favorite songs (by one of my favorite singer-songwriters). Seeing as how this post comes about a week after the planned response date, it probably goes without saying that things–big things, little things; personal things, world things–have gotten in my way. That’s…
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Our 2025 Book Titles and Schedule #theCRPblog
Dear Friend, Last week, I put up a poll on Instagram asking if folks would prefer to know all the titles for the whole year or receive a slow trickle of titles closer to each month. The response was unanimous: you want to know the full schedule now! Fortunately, I planned well ahead, this time,…
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“Freedom of the Mind”: Into a New Year with The Little Prince
Dear Friend, A very happy new year to you and thank you for joining The Contemplative Reading Project for its sixth season! We have a lot of exciting things happening this year, including our first two collaborative reading projects (Proust’s Swann’s Way in February and March, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey in September!) Another book…
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The Mark of Belonging
Dear Friend, Mother tongue. Mother land. Mothers and daughters. The first chapter of the three we read this week is “Calliope,” the Muse of epic poetry. And this epic is a snapshot of both Cha’s mother, Hyung Soon Huo, and their motherland, Korea. The entire chapter, and this relationship to mothers of all kinds, seems…
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